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BIRSE PARISH |
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| Birse is a civil parish covering 125 sq.kms. (50 sq. miles) on Deeside, Aberdeenshire. It coincides with Parliamentary Polling Districts in the Aboyne Electoral Ward. Everyone on these Electoral Registers is automatically a voting member of BCT. The parish has four main parts: the three scattered rural settlements of Finzean, Birse and Ballogie and the largely uninhabited Forest of Birse. The parish's c.270 households and c.740 population are shared almost equally between Finzean and Birse and Ballogie.Each of the three communities has its own Community Association and each half of the parish is represented by its own Community Council |
| Birse 's neighbouring community to the south is Glen Esk across the hills in Angus; to the west, again across hills, it is Glen Tanar; to the north, the parish boundary is the River Dee, with the main link being across the bridge to Aboyne; to the east, it is Strachan parish which, while part of Feughside with Finzean, has been divided from Birse by a parish boundary which for about 900 years was the county boundary between Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire. |
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